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22 Cards in this Set
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Absolute location |
The position or place of a certain item on the surface of the earth as expressed in degrees minutes and seconds of latitude 0 to 90 and or us of the equator and longitude 0 to 180 E or W of the prime meridian |
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Contagious diffusion |
Distance control the spreading of an idea innovation or some other items through a local population by contact from person to person |
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Cultural diffusion |
Expansion and adoption of a cultural element from a place of origin to a wider area |
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cultural landscape |
The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape |
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distances |
Measurements of the physical space between two places |
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Environmental determinism |
View that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development (environmentalism) |
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Expansion diffusion |
spread of innovation or idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger resulting in an expansion area of dissemination |
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fieldwork |
The study of geographic phenomenon by visiting places in observing how people interact with and thereby change those places |
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five themes |
Location human environment regents place and movement |
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formal region |
type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity and one or more phenomena I get a uniform or homogeneous region |
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A compass direction such as north or south are absolute directions saying that Canada is north of the US is an example of absolute direction |
A compass direction such as north or south are absolute directions saying that Canada is north of the US is an example of absolute direction |
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absolute distance |
An absolute distance is the exact measurement of the physical space between two places using the amount of miles that separates two places is an example of a absolute distance |
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Area distortion |
disadvantage for Maps depicting the entire world of the shape distance relative size and direction of places on naps |
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A periodic and official count of a countries population |
A periodic and official count of a countries population |
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Clustering |
Objects in an area are close together |
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Objects in an area are relatively far apart |
Objects in an area are relatively far apart |
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elevation |
The heights of physical features such as mountains is measured from the sea level rather than the ground level |
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Field observation |
A method of studying what people are doing and observing how their actions and reactions vary |
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flows |
A pattern of migration and which migrants move back-and-forth between two or a small number of places such as their home and a distant worksite |
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global dcale |
The geographic scale realm encompassing all of the earth |
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local scale |
distinctive Side or physical characteristic of each place on earth |
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regional scale |
can apply to any area larger than a point and smaller than the entire planet |
